Rutter v. McLaughlin’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably Moss v. Mid-American Fire & Marine Insurance (1982), Shawver v. Huckleberry Estates, L.L.C. (2004)
4 federal appellate · 59 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Cullison v. City of Peoria · Williams v. INSURAMCE COMPANY OF NORTH AMERICA · Werry v. Phillips Petroleum Company · Glenn Dick Equipment Co. v. Galey Construction, Inc. · Dawson v. Mead
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““On appeal the appellant must carry the burden of showing that the district court committed error. Error will not be presumed on appeal but must be affirmatively shown on the record by the appellant. Dawson v. Mead, 98 Idaho 1 , 557 P.2d 595 (1976); Glenn Dick Equip. Co. v. Galey Construction, Inc., 97 Idaho 216 , 541 P.2d 1184 (1975).””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“reasonably subject to conflicting interpretation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Murr v. Selag Corp.
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.